Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] in [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Reports were soon coming in of a man of that description heading towards the Chilterns . |
2 | One writer described couples entering and leaving church in the 1870s as ‘ cool and businesslike , as though having paid the deposit on the purchase of a donkey or a handsome barrow , they were just going in with their witnesses to settle the bargain ’ . |
3 | Several of the photographers and columnists were already drifting in in the hope of an early drink ( they 'd be unlucky — we could n't serve drinks before twelve ) . |
4 | There was a bridge , and the village children were already jumping in from it . |
5 | The sun was low on the horizon now and the birds were still flying in from ‘ pre-roost assembly points ’ . |
6 | The vital veins from her lungs — the pulmonary veins — were n't draining in to her heart , but into a chamber which bypassed it and sent blood down to the liver instead . |
7 | He said , cos we find people were n't coming in at nine o'clock , you know |
8 | And at the heart of that operation was a crackdown on outsiders the Minogue machine felt were unfairly cashing in on her success . |